Super Demetrios

Posing as Dimitris Christoforidis, journalist for the Golden Jerusalem magazine, he fights for truth, justice and the Greco-Christian ideal.

The two protagonists are drawn into a conflict that toys with the viewer's patience until the very climax of the film, in an archetypal battle between good and evil.

One year after its initial screening the film along with its soundtrack was freely released on the Internet under an Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

[9][10] Due to the long time taken for development, even before its release, Super Demetrios had already had a strong fan base, mostly among the Thessaloniki campus students.

In mid 2011, a major Athenian newspaper did a two-page tribute to Super Demetrios, the so-called "first Greek superhero film", making it known to the general public of Athens.

Upon its release at the 52nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival all screenings were crowded with a lot of people watching it standing up on the stairs.

[11] Kostas Tsokos of FilmBoy gave it a 7/10 saying among others that "First of all, everythings shows love and affection for the genre, and for cinema in general" and that "acting is a bit flat and dry but in most cases fits the movie's style.

"[12] Georgia Myridaki from Fringe gave it 5/5 writing that "it has tons of caustic humor, mocks and plays very cleverly with stereotypes that are inextricably linked with this city, like nationalism, strong Christian faith, surrealism" while "leaving aside clichés.

"[13] Stratos Kersanidis from AlterThess calls it "cult cinema in all its glory" and a "thoroughly poorly done film" that satirizes shamelessly and in a "blasphemous" and funny way the conservatism and other aspects of Thessaloniki.

Georgios Papaioannou giving the Super Demetrios master class